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by sametmax 3650 days ago
Is that a good deal in the US ?

Wow, in France for $40 we got:

- 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area)

- Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France

- HD TV

- and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive

- for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited calls and 4G.

And people are still complaining...

5 comments

I think you are confusing Megabits and Gigabits.
100G fiber? I had no idea France was running 4x EDR Infiniband to their citizens' homes.
I demand only the finest quality 16QAM low FEC coherent single wavelength 100 Gbps interface for my condo, doesn't everyone have an ASR9010 with $50,000 100GbE linecard in their closet???
Do you have some proof of that? I know you can commonly get multi-gig connections in some countries, but France was next on that list that I know of.
Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre.

You guys kinda rained on my parade :(

I get 50Mpbs here with Virgin Media - pretty happy about it :D
12Gbps? Seriously?
Has to be wrong, no end user in France is on 100Gbs without ridiculously prohibitive costs